Press Perc or Drip

[D_E_Bishop]

I personally perc but many have touted presses and very few want drip. Presses are usualy glass and in my experience break very easily. A friend and one of the leaders for my DGS's BSA troop is a welder and on site often and camping with the scouts at least once a month. His all time favorite press is a GSI Outdoor, Java Press. It is plastic and it is insulated, has standard press. There are several sizes and are pretty sturdy. Look them up on line, he has the small one and it comes with a matching cup. Insulating sleeve is removeable for washing. He throws it in the washing machine when his wife does dark stuff.

Just and FYI.

[Quality_Johnson]

Percolator here. I am careful to time, measure, and perk the same way each time, so I get consistent and good results. Another coffee trick I heard about years ago, and have been doing for years, is to perk the pot last thing before bed, and put it in a thermos. Then in the AM, whoever is up first can quietly have coffee whilst the lazybones (me) sleep in. The coffee is less crazy hot after a night in the thermos, too.

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Campfire Time wrote:
Press is just a PIA in my opinion.

You are not the first person here to express that sentiment by any means and I can completely sympathize with those not wanting to put up with the French press or alternate means of arriving at the same basic brew. It's just that we are always trying to make good coffee and find that seems to work pretty well most times. Not that we don't use the machine, too. It all comes down to convenience and how much you can make at any one time.

[Campfire_Time]

Perc is the best once you know how to time it. Problem is its slow and you have to watch it. Press is just a PIA in my opinion. Drip is the easiest can make great coffee when used with good quality coffee to begin with.

K-kup is way over priced, even with the expired patent now. Better off with good quality coffee and a standard drip machine.

[MaverickBBD]

Press is great if the maker knows what he/she is doing. Personally I don't. I like perc, but there is nothing like the convenience of drip. The C.B. coffee sounds intriguing. Wonder if we can get Starbucks to start carrying it?

[markandkim]

K-cup.

[Jim_Shoe]

I went to a "cowboy cookout" in the Tetons several years ago. They had a huge pot of hot water on the campfire and put the ground coffee in a sock, knotted it, and dropped in in the pot. Some of the best coffee I ever drank. BTW, they assured us that they used a clean sock. 🙂

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After playing around with French press coffee in the rig as a way to make coffee by just boiling water on the stove it was apparent that results were pretty good. Getting rid of the grounds is easy if you keep a fine hand strainer to dump them out into. Make getting rid of the grounds real easy.

That's not for my main point, though. French press coffee is nothing more that cowboy coffee. All you are doing is soaking the grounds in hot water for a while and then using the "press" to push the grounds to the bottom so that you can pour out a cup without any grounds getting in the cup. That press does not push down on those wet grounds in the bottom of the French press to somehow impart some magical property to make a wonderful cup of coffee. You don't need a French press !

All you have to do is steep those grounds in hot water for, say, five minutes and then dump that coffee water into your cup through a fine hand strainer. I've been using a large glass measuring cup that holds four cups (32 oz) with some additional room at the top so that grounds can be put into the measuring cup without over flowing the water. And you have a pour spout, too, by using a measuring cup.